Adhesive label.



M. GALIBERT.

ADHESlVE LABEL. APPLICATION man Nov. 5. me.

l ,295,300, Patented Feb. 25, 1919.

MAURIC GALIBERT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

ADHESIVE LABEL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 25, 1919.

Application led November 5, 1918. Serial No. 261,224.

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, MAURICE GAmBnR'r, acitizen of the United States, residing in the city, county, and State ofNew York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in AdhesiveLabels, of which the following is a specification.

This invention rel-ates yto a label for a labeled container having anexterior shouldered surface; its object being to effect the labeling insuch wise`that paper or otherl be worked either mechanically or manuallyon any shape of container having an exterior shoulder which increasesits cross-sectional dimension.

In the accompanying drawings, forming apart hereof and illustrating theprinciple of this invention in the best mode now known to me of applyingthat principle,

Figure 1 is a lengthwise central section of an unlabeled tubularcontainer each end of which is provided withv a cupped cap the flange ofwhich is exterior to the outward surface of the tubular body of thecontainer.

Fig. '2 shows the back side of a paper label. gummed in accordance withmy invention.

. Fig. 3. shows the capped container of Fig. 1 labeled in accordancewith this invention. Referring'to the drawings, 1 is a tubular containerbody, each end of which is covered by a cupped cap 2, the flange. 3 ofwhich encircles the container body and constitutes a peripheral shoulderor-.collar thereon, whereby -t'he container surface tobe labeled hasrelative high and low surfaces.

rI"he back of my new gummed or adhesively attachaJble paper label 4 isprovided either before or during the labeling opera-'. tion, when thereare two exterior cap shoulders on the container, with two opposedmarginal gum strips '5, extending in the directionof the wrapping lengthof thelabel from end to end thereoieas shown. In- Wardly of and adjacenteach such marginal vlength of the label.

gum strip 5, the label back is provided with an ungummed space 6parallel to a gum' strip 5; and between the two gumless spaces 6,thelabel back is covered with an intermediate strip 7 of gum of the fullwrapping By strip, in this conneet-lon, is meant a surface made adhesiveby any suitable material whether applied, allowed to set andsubsequently put into an adhesive condition; or applied moist as thelabel is being lapplied.

The point respecting the marginal strip or strips 5 is that the Vgum oradhesive is made liquid enough to temper the margin or margins of thelalbels,-that is tosoften and render them 'stretcha'ble The pointrespecting the intermediate gum strip 7 is preferably that the gum oradhesive shall be less liquid, that is of he-avierbody which willpinpractice only negligibly temper the papel" on which it is applied. Inactual practice. a thick adhesive is used for the gum strip 7, but it isnot intended t'o limit the invention to non-tempering of the-papercorrespondlng to such strip because actual tempering'of such portion ofthe pape-r might be successfully practised. The purpose of the tivoparallel gumless spaces 6 is to afford clean, gumless surfaces 0n thelabel back for contact with mechanical labeling .instrumentalities sothat the latter will lnot become I gummed. The importance of this isknoivn to allskilled in the labelin machine art. The width of eachmarginaI gum strip or strips is approximately correspondent to the widthof a'. shoulder or collar or fiange of the A container, therebypreferably to be 'adhe` sively attached not only to the peripheralvsurface of the collar, shoulder or flange, but

also the inward edge thereof; and when the tempered and so stretchalblemargin or margins of the label are applied on the shoulder or shoulders,the label wid-thwise can be by suitable pressure molded to fit thecontour of the container, the intermediate more tenacious gum oradhesive on strip 7 holding the label to the body of the container whilelthe stretchable paper margins `tempered by the more liquid gum strips 5are confined to the cap iianges or shoulder-forming collars. The result-is that the body of the label between the collars or cap orcoverflanges is laid smooth on the container body; and compared with allmachine-labeled containers known to me presents a much neater and moredesirable appearance, the more or less 'les wrinkled appearance of suchlabels of such prior container being eliminated.- In such priorpractice, the labels have been smooth and tight around theshoulder-forming collars or cap or cover flanges, and more or less looseand wrinkled between them. l

Containers labeled by the described labels and by the present method areeasily recognizable both by the smooth adhesion of the body of the labelbetween the end collars, and also, on examination, by the resence of thetwo gumless spaces 6, two ot which are in the nature of mechanicalfeatures whether there is more than one gummed strip 5 or not; and bythe relation of the gummed strip 7 to one or more gumless spaces 6 andone or more gum strips 5.

So far as I now know, this invention finds its main and perhapsexclusive utility in the application of paper labels, but the inventionis susceptible of use in connection with any flexible label which has atempei'able margin or margins. By gum is meant any suitable adhesivewhether of gum proper, paste, or otherwise. The word temper is eX-tensively and commonly used in the paper label and paper working arts toindicate softening and consequent stretchability, and

the elements, liquidity of the adhesive and application Serial No.261,225, and vthe labeled or wrapped container herein described formsthe subject-matter of my copending application Serial No. 261,223, bothfiled November 5, 1918.

lVhat I claim herein is:

1. The herein described partially tempered label provided with amarginal adhesive stri on a temperable margin; with two para'l elnon-adhesive portions spaced apart and parallel to the adhesive,tempered margin; and with anadhesive surface between such non-adhesiveportions.

2. The hereindescribed partially -tempered label or wrapper providedwith a marginal adhesive lstrip on a temperable margin; with an adhesivesurface adjacent but spaced away from the marginal adhesive strip; andwith a non-adhesive portion intermediate the marginal adhesive strip andsaid adhesive surface.

c In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 31st day ofOctober, 1918.

' MAURICE GALIBERT.

